I have a FreeBSD guest on a Windows XP host.
BSD has no GUI, so it just boots up to the terminal. The output of most commands is more than is visible on the screen, but I can't scroll up/down in the terminal through Page Up / Page Down, or SHIFT + Page Up / Down keys.
I have to keep running commands like ls as ls | less which is annoying if the output is a lot.
How can I scroll the screen output?
3 Answers
If you'd like to scroll up/down in VirtualBox terminal window, use please the combination key:Shift+PageUp/PageDown
For leave terminal window, just press the right Ctrl.
3Not exactly what you asked, but it is a usable workaround: after starting up your VirtualBox, connect to it with a ssh client like putty. You can then work and scroll in the ssh client, instead of using the VirtualBox terminal.
With Virtualbox, the guest should be connected to the network using Bridge Adapter instead of NAT for connecting via SSH with Putty.
If you are on a Mac with no Page Up/Page Down keys, press Shift+Fn+Up Arrow or Shift+Fn+Down Arrow
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